The Cybersecurity 202: Security pros question Secret Service's examination of thumb drive seized at Mar-a-Lago
In this artist sketch, a Chinese woman, Yujing Zhang, left, listens to a hearing Monday, April 8, 2019, before federal Magistrate Judge William Matthewman in West Palm Beach, Fla. Secret Service agents arrested the 32-year-old woman March 30 after they say she gained admission by falsely telling a checkpoint she was a member and was going to swim.
A law enforcement source tells me that investigation was conducted according to protocol: A Secret Service agent loaded the drive onto a stand-alone computer that was segregated from government networks and watched as it did what malware is supposed to do -- infect files and try to steal information.in a court hearing Monday, sure made it sound like someone goofed.
“He knew it was something out of the ordinary,” Ivanovich said of the other agent. “He had to immediately stop his analysis and shut down his computer in order to stop it.”“In a lab, you want that malicious behavior to happen to its full level of badness so you can study how it operates,” Jake Williams, founder of the cybersecurity company Rendition Infosec, told me. “If he yanked the USB drive out to prevent further contamination, that’s highly indicative this wasn’t in a lab.
The Secret Service declined to comment about the disconnect between the agent’s actions and what cybersecurity experts described as standard procedure when investigating malware, citing the ongoing investigation.
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